Jolly good fellows

We enjoyed a great time in Jonkoping, Sweden this past week, where we held our 26th annual conference of the European Distance and Elearning Network (EDEN). Around 200 people attended the conference, representing 34 different countries. During the event, it was time for me to step down as the chair of the Network of Academics and Professionals of EDEN after serving 6 years on the steering committee. Another blog post is in the pipeline to report on my work with that particular organisation.

I was very pleased, if not a little surprised, to be awarded Senior Fellow of EDEN and was presented with my certificate by the EDEN president in a ceremony on the first evening of the conference. It is the highest honour EDEN bestows, and I was delighted to know it is in recognition of my contributions to European education. The award means very much to me, personally as well as professionally. Also awarded senior fellowships were my good friends Jack Koumi (UK), Gila Kurtz (Israel), Wim van Petegem (Belgium) and Rory McGreal (Canada). I suppose you could say we are all jolly good fellows.

Photo by Dawn Wheeler


Jolly good fellows by Steve Wheeler was written in Dublin, Ireland and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.